Don Savage Headquarters, Washington, D.C. (Phone: 202-358-1547) Bill Steigerwald Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Md. (Phone: 301-286-5017) RELEASE: 00-03 HUBBLE OBSERVATIONS INDICATE MASSIVE PLANETS MAY FORM QUICKLY OUT IN THE […]
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Possible Astronomical Implications for the Origin of Life-chemical synthesis in the circumstellar environment
Ever since the Miller-Urey experiment in 1953, most scientists have held the view that life arose on the early Earth from simple inorganic molecules. With a suitable energy source (e.g. […]
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Astronomers End Year with a Bang: NASA Uses Teamwork to Learn about One of the Most Powerful Explosions in the Universe
Steve Roy Media Relations Department (256) 544-0034 steve.roy@msfc.nasa.gov http://www.msfc.nasa.gov/news RELEASE: 00-008 Astronomers End Year with a Bang: NASA Uses Teamwork to Learn about One of the Most Powerful Explosions in […]
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Beta Pictoris Disk Hides Giant Elliptical Ring System
CONTACT: Ray Villard Space Telescope Science Institute, Baltimore, MD (Phone: 410-338-4514, E-mail: villard@stsci.edu) Paul Kalas Space Telescope Science Institute, Baltimore, MD (Phone: 410-338-4379, E-mail: kalas@stsci.edu) PRESS RELEASE NO.: STScI-PR00-02 BETA […]
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Space Shuttle Program Joins American Icons in Commemorative Stamp Collection
Kirsten Williams Headquarters, Washington, DC (Phone: 202/358-0243) Cathy Yarosky United States Postal Service, Washington, DC (Phone: 202/268-2126) RELEASE: 00-12 SPACE SHUTTLE PROGRAM JOINS AMERICAN ICONS IN COMMEMORATIVE STAMP COLLECTION The […]
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Satellite finds star-forming fuel nearly everywhere in Milky Way
Edge-on view of the nearby galaxy, NGC 891, taken by astronomers at the University of Wisconsin (WIYN Telescope). This image clearly shows the dark layers of interstellar gas clouds from […]
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Astronomers find proof that the galaxy has a hot corona
Contact: Blair D. Savage savage@astro.wisc.edu 608-265-8786 University of Wisconsin-Madison NOTE TO PHOTO EDITORS: High-resolution images and an animation to accompany this story may be downloaded at: http://www.news.wisc.edu/newsphotos/fuse.html ATLANTA – With […]
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Space Station Research Should Be Managed By Private Organization Instead of NASA
Contacts: Bob Ludwig, Media Relations Associate Kathi McMullin, Media Relations Assistant (202) 334-2138; e-mail <news@nas.edu> EMBARGOED: NOT FOR PUBLIC RELEASE BEFORE 5 P.M. EST TUESDAY, JAN. 11 Space Station Research […]
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This Week on Galileo January 10-16, 2000
Galileo continues to orbit around Jupiter this week, traveling away from the heart of the system after completing a close flyby of Jupiter’s icy moon Europa last week. The spacecraft […]
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Stardust Status Report January 11, 2000
The Trajectory Correction Maneuver A (TCM-A) was performed nearly flawless on December 28, with less than one-sigma errors in both maneuver magnitude and pointing. The timeline was followed to the […]
